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1982 Movie Reviews – Q: The Winged Serpent

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by Sean P. Aune | October 29, 2022October 29, 2022 10:30 am EDT

Welcome to an thrilling year-long venture right here at The Nerdy. 1982 was an thrilling 12 months for movies giving us loads of movies that will go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was additionally the begin to a serious shift in cultural and societal norms, and a few of these nonetheless reverberate to today.

We’re going to choose and select which films we hit, however proper now the checklist stands at practically 4 dozen.

Sure, we’re insane, however 1982 was that nice of a 12 months for movie.

The articles will come out – generally – on the identical day the movies hit theaters in 1982 in order that it’s their true fortieth anniversary. All movies are additionally watched once more for the needs of those evaluations and are usually not being carried out from reminiscence. In some circumstances, it really would be the first time we’ve seen them.

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This time round, it’s October 29, 1982, and we’re off to see Q: The Winged Serpent!

Fast aspect word: Since we launched this sequence this 12 months, we’ve found that Classic Video Podcast is doing the very same venture with two variations: First, it’s audio (naturally), and second, they’re doing each main movie. We’ve listened to quite a few episodes and it’s enjoyable checking off their ideas in opposition to my very own. Examine them out over at Classic Video Podcast.

 

Q: The Winged Serpent

I actually ought to hate Q: The Winged Serpent. Extraordinarily campy. Some poor appearing decisions. A totally non-sensical working plot level of nobody seeing this big winged monster approaching them. And nobody is aware of the place it goes to nest? (The highest of the Chrysler Constructing. You recognize, solely one of the crucial photographed buildings in New York Metropolis.)

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However then we get to Jimmy Quinn (Michael Moriarty), a two-bit gangster wanna-be stumbling on Q and utilizing it as his pet to eat different gangsters and attempt to blackmail town, and I believed, “I’m all in now.”

Q operates on a few ranges as a throwback to the horror films of yesteryear, a commentary on metropolis politics of the early Nineteen Eighties, and even some commentary on policing.

There’s a sub-plot of this monster being the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, and a few individuals attempting to summon it again to life. It’s really inconsequential to the result of the movie and it will have been simply as enjoyable if it was some random monster.

Usually I hate overly self-aware ‘horror’ movies, however all the things about Q works. It by no means goes too far over the road and finally ends up being a really enjoyable movie that goes down fairly straightforward.

1982 Film Evaluations will return on Nov. 5 with The Man from Snowy River and Piranha II: The Spawning!

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